Good video. The truck is poorly positioned to take the turn though. The prime mover has already commenced turning relative to the trailer which is part of the reason the field of vision is not as wide as it would normally be through the mirrors. Looks like the truck has commenced turning a bit early and will run over the kerb with the trailer. On my iPhone it does anyway. Fact remains though you won't last long going up the side of left turning trucks.

Edit beaten by Baalzamon. I'm trying to say much the same thing. I just waffle more

In London - one of the concrete companies has now equipped all it's trucks with proximity sensors along the side of the truck which display the gap (in metres) to the driver, then driver can then see the gap decrease if another road user passes alongside the truck, apparently the fatality rate has dropped from 1 death a year to none.....

Unless you blokes drive trucks and I mean real trucks, not some 2/3t thing, then you have no idea of what your talking about with the mirrors.

I spend all week in a B-double and there is no amount of adjusting you can do to the mirrors, that will allow you to take out the blind spots. I loose complete cars beside me and I'm talking Commodores and Falcons.

Foo

I don't suffer fools easily and so long as you have done your best,you should have no regrets.Goal 6000km

Sure there are details like mirror or angle - even so, the reality is that at times there is a blind spot - and it is surprising to see so much missing space is lost (which has concealed all of these riders).

Just goes to show that they have those "do not overtake turning vehicle" signs for a very good reason. For an entire group to disappear is horrifying. I think common sense has to prevail with these things... I think most of us are clever enough to appreciate that truck drivers are not deliberately difficult in the same way that ute wannabes are...

foo on patrol wrote:Unless you blokes drive trucks and I mean real trucks, not some 2/3t thing, then you have no idea of what your talking about with the mirrors.

I spend all week in a B-double and there is no amount of adjusting you can do to the mirrors, that will allow you to take out the blind spots. I loose complete cars beside me and I'm talking Commodores and Falcons.

Foo

+1For 15 years I drove a 10 tonne truck around Canberra and the only way I could ever be sure no one is there is if I overtake a vehicle and I then see it in the distance behind me. If a truck pulls into an intersection and someone squeezes up on the inside then it is entirely probable they will get a nasty surprise if the truck is turning.Anyone who overtakes a truck on the left will have no one to blame but themselves if they get a scare or worse.

Or proximity sensors could be fitted like they have been to concrete/cement trucks in London......

Surely a truck driver would like the extra piece of mind of an alarm beeping if something has passed up the inside of his truck rather than unknowingly killing someone because it was in his blind spot as he turned.....

I am certain a truck driver would feel guilty if someone died due to being hidden in a blindspot of the truck during a turn even though it was not the truck drivers fault.....

Riggsbie wrote:In London - one of the concrete companies has now equipped all it's trucks with proximity sensors along the side of the truck which display the gap (in metres) to the driver, then driver can then see the gap decrease if another road user passes alongside the truck, apparently the fatality rate has dropped from 1 death a year to none.....

Surely these proximity sensors should be compulsory ?

I'm not convinced that decrease from 1 death pa to 0 pa can be attributed to the proximity sensors.

If the death rate in the population under review had gone from (say) 6,000 to 5,000 then the claim could stack up. But if the starting number is 1, then the statistics of small numbers come to play. If it goes from 1 to 2, it's doubled - have a serious crisis here! A reduction of 1 per annum does not sound anywhere near as sexy as a 100% reduction.

foo on patrol wrote:Unless you blokes drive trucks and I mean real trucks, not some 2/3t thing, then you have no idea of what your talking about with the mirrors.

I spend all week in a B-double and there is no amount of adjusting you can do to the mirrors, that will allow you to take out the blind spots. I loose complete cars beside me and I'm talking Commodores and Falcons.

Foo

How about coming back from Perth with my dad ( road train) we pass a car and caravan they called us pass. Please also note we have road train signs on front of truck .Anyway caravaner calls us clear and OK to put it away Mr truckie LOL only 1 trailer past you buddy might wait a bit for the dolly and second trailer hey ..... Some people no idea

revinR1 wrote:How about coming back from Perth with my dad ( road train) we pass a car and caravan they called us pass. Please also note we have road train signs on front of truck .Anyway caravaner calls us clear and OK to put it away Mr truckie LOL only 1 trailer past you buddy might wait a bit for the dolly and second trailer hey ..... Some people no idea

Or you're out to pass them on a nice long straight section of road, hit the speed limiter and the stupid buggers speed up also. So you are stuck on the wrong side of the road with the combo only half past them. The left hand indicator coming on soon sorts that out

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